One Plus One - The Elders

Season 1

2023 · 8 episodes · 3h 56m in all

Episodes

1. 

   1. June Oscar

   1 Jun 2023 · 29 min

   June Oscar is a highly regarded Social Justice Commissioner advocating for First Nations people here and abroad. She shares her family's stories of resistance, her fight to stamp out alcohol abuse and making social change.

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   2. Fred Hooper

   8 Jun 2023 · 29 min

   Beside the Culgoa River in NSW, Murrawarri man Fred Hooper tells the stories of his ancestors. The water rights advocate shares his fight for his Nation's independence and why he walked out of the Uluru summit in 2017.

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   3. Pat Turner

   15 Jun 2023 · 30 min

   Pat Turner works with politicians to improve health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders but her life began in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). She shares stories of how activists before her shaped who she is today.

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   4. Ian Hamm

   22 Jun 2023 · 30 min

   From Yarrawonga in Victoria's Yorta Yorta Country, Ian Hamm shares with Dan how his own story of being a 'stolen child' sparked his life-long determination to reshape how Government policies affect First Nations people.

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   5. Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr Baumann

   29 Jun 2023 · 30 min

   Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr Baumann began teaching in her NT community of Nauiyu in the 1970s, but she tells Dan Bourchier now is when her work really begins. She explains the importance of deep listening and walking in two worlds.

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   6. Aunty Fay Clayton Moseley

   6 Jul 2023 · 29 min

   Aunty Fay Clayton Moseley was taken by authorities when she was 10 and told her parents didn't want her. It would be years until she learnt the truth. Fay shares her painful past, and how she's found healing through painting.

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   7. Rodney Gibbins

   13 Jul 2023 · 29 min

   Palawa man Rodney Gibbins shares what it was like to grow up being told a myth his people were dying out. From Lutruwita Rodney explains how the community fought to repatriate his peoples' remains, and the personal impact.

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   8. Gail Mabo

   20 Jul 2023 · 30 min

   From Palm Island, Queensland, artist Gail Mabo shares stories from her mother's Country. She opens up about how her father Eddie Koiki Mabo's High Court win has shaped her life, and what it has meant being appointed the family spokesperson.